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How Christian Wives can Win Unsaved Husbands
I Peter 3:1–6
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In this passage Peter singles out and speaks to Christian wives who had unsaved husbands. These wives were seeking to win their husbands to the Lord but they were going about in the wrong way.
There are few experiences more difficult in life than to be married to an unbeliever. This is why God is dogmatic in his instruction of “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers” (II Corinthians 6:14). However, if a wife is converted and her husband remains unsaved the attitude of the wife will have a lot to do with his salvation. Peter gives three reasons why a Christian wife should be submissive to her husband, even if he is unsaved.
A Christian woman who has inner beauty will not have to depend on cosmetics, jewelry etc. All of these things are artificial and external while true beauty is real and internal. Peter was not forbidding the wearing of jewelry but simply saying that God is more concerned about what is on the inside.
Application
What am I doing to do to build Godly character traits into my life and the life of my family?
I Peter 3:1-6 (English Standard Version)
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear-- but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.
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